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Chinese mining firm to raze Peruvian peak for 35 years of mineral wealthhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/20/chinese-mining-peru-corporate-responsibility
Chinalco has built a new town to rehouse thousands of displaced people – but some are determined to stay in doomed Morococha<p>They call the mountain Toromocho, which means "bull without horns". But to its new, Chinese owners, the name is irrelevant: the rugged peak is packed with copper, silver and molybdenum, an element used in alloys. It could be worth as much as $50bn (£30bn). Toromocho must go.</p><p>And so must the people living there. The nearby ramshackle town of Morococha is home to 5,000 people. With adobe and brick houses, intermittent electricity and no running or safe water, theirs is no life of ease; the town's got to go, too.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/20/chinese-mining-peru-corporate-responsibility">Continue reading...</a>PeruChinaMiningMiningGlobal economyWorld newsAmericasAsia PacificEnvironmentBusinessCorporate social responsibilitySustainable developmentEnvironmental sustainabilityThu, 20 Dec 2012 16:00:58 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/20/chinese-mining-peru-corporate-responsibilityPhotograph: Dan CollynsToromocho's town of Morococha will be swallowed up by a mining crater in eight years' time, Chinalco says. Photograph: Dan CollynsPhotograph: Dan CollynsToromocho's town of Morococha will be swallowed up by a mining crater in eight years' time, Chinalco says. Photograph: Dan CollynsDan Collyns2012-12-20T16:00:58ZNew-wave economies going for growthhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/18/booming-economies-beyond-brics
As even Brics plateau, other countries, from Bangladesh to Mexico, are coming up fast - and could overtake the west by 2050<p>They are big. They have young and growing populations. They have invested in infrastructure and education. And they are growing at the sort of rates that make them the envy of the recession-hobbled west.</p><p>No, these are not the famed Brics – the big emerging market economies of which much has been heard since the acronym was first coined by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs more than a decade ago. Rather, they are a second wave of countries – some Asian, some Latin American, some African – coming up fast behind.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/18/booming-economies-beyond-brics">Continue reading...</a>Global economyChinaIndiaSouth KoreaTurkeyMexicoArgentinaG20G8VietnamNigeriaBangladeshPhilippinesIndonesiaTelecomsTue, 18 Dec 2012 17:51:56 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/18/booming-economies-beyond-bricsPhotograph: Supri/REUTERSA worker unloads rice for Indonesia's state procurement agency, Bulog. Indonesia has seen strong domestic demand from its large population, with its economy likely to overtake the UK's by 2050. Photograph: Supri/ReutersPhotograph: Supri/REUTERSA worker unloads rice for Indonesia's state procurement agency, Bulog. Indonesia has seen strong domestic demand from its large population, with its economy likely to overtake the UK's by 2050. Photograph: Supri/ReutersLarry Elliott, economics editor2012-12-18T17:51:56ZLessons from the Brics, part I: can Brazil and China keep growing?https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/18/booming-economies-lessons-brics-brazil-china
Millions of people emerged from poverty in the last decade but inequality, slow growth and poor investment threaten those gains<p>Marilucia Marques could be a poster child for the new Latin American middle class. Black, poor and raised by a single mother in a Rio <em>favela</em>, the young Brazilian lifted herself out of the slum thanks to hard study and a rare opportunity for higher education. She is now a teacher, earning six times more than her mother – who worked as a maid all her life – and is the first member of her family to be able to afford foreign travel, as well as concerts, theatre and the cinema.</p><p>From a global perspective, she is exactly what the world economy is looking for: a driver of growth, an example of millennium development goal success and an indication that Latin America may be shedding a reputation for social inequality and financial instability.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/18/booming-economies-lessons-brics-brazil-china">Continue reading...</a>BrazilAmericasWorld newsChinaAsia PacificGlobalisationEconomicsBusinessDilma RousseffGlobal economyBricsTue, 18 Dec 2012 17:21:33 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/18/booming-economies-lessons-brics-brazil-chinaPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APA protest against political corruption on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach. Deep-seated corruption makes Brazil score badly in global competitiveness surveys. Photograph: Felipe Dana/APPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APA protest against political corruption on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach. Deep-seated corruption makes Brazil score badly in global competitiveness surveys. Photograph: Felipe Dana/APJonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro2012-12-18T17:21:33Z